Bridgeville, Penn. – April 13, 2026 – Sinclair Broadcasting station WTOV sits atop a hill in Mingo Junction, Ohio – near where the Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter was shot in 1978. A mural of the film still adorns the wall of a building at the bottom of the hill.
The station’s welcoming atmosphere reflects the consistency of its long-term management combined with its ability to adopt a new stylistic approach, while maintaining its core vision to deliver balanced and timely news. For example, WTOV’s Vice-President and General Manager, Tim McCoy joined the station as a news videographer in 1981 and has shepherded it through decades of change, including ensuring that its new design is optimized for a dynamic look and multi-platform news production.
Digital Enhanced Broadcast Facility
With Sinclair’s support, WTOV-TV transformed their studio into a digitally enhanced broadcast center that delivers live news programming through a variety of electronic and color-changing backgrounds. Sinclair’s Eric Castagne, Assistant Director of Television Production at Sinclair, took the lead designing the electronic sets, with support from Director of Television Production, Mark Nadeau.
Brightline Lighting Partner Sam Cercone, a proud Ohio native, visited the studio after it went online. What he witnessed at WTOV was a brilliant lighting and set design, optimized within the existing space. Castagne, along with Nadeau, created three distinct sets, including a dedicated green screen area. Two studio walls with interactive LED backgrounds sit behind the news anchors, positioned at a 90-degree angle from each other. A new main anchor desk; an interview set; and a chroma key/sports broadcast area round out the improvements. The LED walls are lit for full walk-and-talk ability, enhancing their high-end, immersive look.
New Lighting Fixtures and Upgrades
WTOV is lit with a combination of new Brightline LED fixtures and LED upgrades to its original SeriesONE fluorescent fixtures, complemented by highlights from Brightline Pup fresnels, mounted throughout the studio. The result creates an exciting canvas of future programming opportunities for WTOV.
In April 2009, it was the first station in the Ohio Valley to broadcast local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen format. It currently runs almost all its syndicated programming in HD.
WTOV serves the Wheeling, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio market as an affiliate of NBC and Fox.
WTOV Equipment List:
LED Retrofit kit for Brightline S1.2 & S1.4 fluorescent fixtures (24x)
Minnow 55W LED Profile Spotlight (10x)
Lupo DayLED 650 60W Fresnel (3x)
Lupo DayLED 1000 110W Fresnel (11x)
Pup 55W Fresnel (10x)
ETC ColorSource lighting control console (1x)
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